The Rigveda is the oldest and most important source of material for India, Indo-Aryan, and even Indo-European history. It is a text which has been part of a hoary and widespread living tradition thousands of years old. Naturally, a text which has remained alive, as part of a living tradition, for so long cannot and should not be analysed without reference to what that tradition has to say about it. In the present volume, the author has confirmed emphatically that India was also the original homeland not only of the Indo-Aryans but also of the Indo-Iranians and the Indo-Europeans.;The author has gone directly to the primary sources without any preconceived notions, and examined as well analysed the available information with the help of traditional tools of interpretation. In this present study, he has elaborated a historical analysis of the Rigveda on the basis of genealogies of composers of the hymns preserved in the Anukramanis or indices of the Rigveda.

Table of Contents:-

Section I: The Rigveda

The AnukramaNIs

The Composers of the Rigveda

The Chronology of the Rigveda

The Geography of the Rigveda

The Historical Identity of the Vedic Aryans

Section II: Beyond the Rigveda

The Indo-Iranian Homeland

The Indo-European Homeland

Section III: Appendices

Misinterpretations of Rigvedic History

Michael Witzel

SaramA and the PaNis: A Mythological Theme in the Rigveda

Prominent River-names in Rigveda

Prominent place-names in Rigveda

Anu-Druhyu Migrations

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